We spent the first part of the day at my mom's visiting with my brother and his family, in from Texas, and then we went over to Kevin and Theresa's house for the evening. Mikey didn't come to Kevin & Theresa's... he loves them, but it's pretty hard to tear him away from his cousins!
Here are the pictures we took (not a lot of them, but some pretty good ones anyway).
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Soccer Tournament Fall 2008
What a day we had last weekend!
Saturday the 15th was Mikey's soccer tournament. We were lucky enough to get the first game at 8am. And it was COLD! It was in the 40s all morning, and VERY windy. Good thing Mikey got in a hearty breakfast first! (Notice the filled water bottle in the foreground... got to stay hydrated! ...and the vitamins in the background... got to have plenty of energy to win a soccer game!
As I mentioned, it was REALLY cold out there. Everybody was totally bundled up... even the kids (and Cathy!) You could barely tell which team was which, since most of the kids had jackets on over their uniforms! But the parents were all in good spirits and ready to cheer. The kids played a great game, and won the first game pretty easily!
Coach White had brought a ton of hot dogs, and all of the parents had brought stuff... chili or chips or drinks or plates and cups. Our second game was at 11, so we had a couple of hours to wait, so we froze for a while and drank hot chocolate, and then Coach White and one of the dads grilled the hot dogs. The kids weren't probably getting that cold... they were kicking soccer balls around the entire time! One of the families had brought a big blue tent with a "wind tarp" but it was so windy that the tent was in danger of blowing away, so we wound up taking the wind tarp down!
After we had lunch it was time for the next game... the kids played great soccer, and again won easily. Everybody was charged up and ready for the next game! Unfortunately, the next game wasn't scheduled to start until much later, so Coach told us we could go home and rest if we wanted to and they would call us with the final time later.
Cathy was a trooper through the whole thing... she had been having some back trouble the week before, but she wanted so badly to be there that she came out and sat in the camp chair anyway. We picked up Hannah from Meme's (where she had gone to stay warm and out of the wind) and went home to rest, and Cathy didn't come out for the late game.
Mrs. Coach White called us and told us that the game was scheduled for 5:00! We knew that sundown was around 5:30, and so we knew that we were probably going to finish the game in the dark. As you can tell from the picture at left, which I took at the beginning of the game, it was after 5 and it was twilight when we started playing! Here's an action shot from the middle of the game. The soccer ball was dead center in this shot:
Can't see what's going on? Neither could we.
The kids played hard, but they were out-played and lost this third game. The tournament was double-elimination, though, which means that they weren't out of the running yet! In that kind of tournament, you have to lose twice to be eliminated. So we had another game to play the next day!
Fortunately for us, we did not wind up playing the first game the next day, or even the second or third. Our game was scheduled for 1pm, which meant that we would be able to go to church for one service and still have plenty of time to get out there for the game. So that's what Mikey and I did. The kids played well in their game, but ultimately they were eliminated. They finished in fifth place out of a league of 14 teams. Not too shabby!
Here's a picture of the Foot Action Soccer Fall 2008 league Outlaws:
And here's Mikey with his medal:
See pictures from the whole weekend here!
Saturday the 15th was Mikey's soccer tournament. We were lucky enough to get the first game at 8am. And it was COLD! It was in the 40s all morning, and VERY windy. Good thing Mikey got in a hearty breakfast first! (Notice the filled water bottle in the foreground... got to stay hydrated! ...and the vitamins in the background... got to have plenty of energy to win a soccer game!As I mentioned, it was REALLY cold out there. Everybody was totally bundled up... even the kids (and Cathy!) You could barely tell which team was which, since most of the kids had jackets on over their uniforms! But the parents were all in good spirits and ready to cheer. The kids played a great game, and won the first game pretty easily!Coach White had brought a ton of hot dogs, and all of the parents had brought stuff... chili or chips or drinks or plates and cups. Our second game was at 11, so we had a couple of hours to wait, so we froze for a while and drank hot chocolate, and then Coach White and one of the dads grilled the hot dogs. The kids weren't probably getting that cold... they were kicking soccer balls around the entire time! One of the families had brought a big blue tent with a "wind tarp" but it was so windy that the tent was in danger of blowing away, so we wound up taking the wind tarp down!After we had lunch it was time for the next game... the kids played great soccer, and again won easily. Everybody was charged up and ready for the next game! Unfortunately, the next game wasn't scheduled to start until much later, so Coach told us we could go home and rest if we wanted to and they would call us with the final time later.
Cathy was a trooper through the whole thing... she had been having some back trouble the week before, but she wanted so badly to be there that she came out and sat in the camp chair anyway. We picked up Hannah from Meme's (where she had gone to stay warm and out of the wind) and went home to rest, and Cathy didn't come out for the late game.
Mrs. Coach White called us and told us that the game was scheduled for 5:00! We knew that sundown was around 5:30, and so we knew that we were probably going to finish the game in the dark. As you can tell from the picture at left, which I took at the beginning of the game, it was after 5 and it was twilight when we started playing! Here's an action shot from the middle of the game. The soccer ball was dead center in this shot:Can't see what's going on? Neither could we.
The kids played hard, but they were out-played and lost this third game. The tournament was double-elimination, though, which means that they weren't out of the running yet! In that kind of tournament, you have to lose twice to be eliminated. So we had another game to play the next day!
Fortunately for us, we did not wind up playing the first game the next day, or even the second or third. Our game was scheduled for 1pm, which meant that we would be able to go to church for one service and still have plenty of time to get out there for the game. So that's what Mikey and I did. The kids played well in their game, but ultimately they were eliminated. They finished in fifth place out of a league of 14 teams. Not too shabby!
Here's a picture of the Foot Action Soccer Fall 2008 league Outlaws:
And here's Mikey with his medal:
See pictures from the whole weekend here!
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Friday, November 21, 2008
Jelly Telly
I'll have a post about the results of last Saturday's soccer tournament soon... I didn't want to post it until I have the pictures uploaded. But I did want to share something with you. A new online "TV network" for kids called JellyTelly. It's the brainchild of Phil "Bob the Tomato" Vischer. Here he is, explaining what JellyTelly is all about:
Visit http://www.jellytelly.com/grownups for some more info about it. There is a subscription cost, but it is VERY small and the shows are terrific. There's science and there's history and there's Bible and then there are fun things like GodRocks. There's a kid named Michael who does movie reviews, and when he tells you the plot of the movie he always gets it mixed up with Star Wars! Fun stuff like that. Sign up for a month free and check it out!
Visit http://www.jellytelly.com/grownups for some more info about it. There is a subscription cost, but it is VERY small and the shows are terrific. There's science and there's history and there's Bible and then there are fun things like GodRocks. There's a kid named Michael who does movie reviews, and when he tells you the plot of the movie he always gets it mixed up with Star Wars! Fun stuff like that. Sign up for a month free and check it out!
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Soccer on the Tundra
Saturday. It's 6:46am. It's 37 degrees outside. I've been up since a little after 6. In one hour, we will be out at the soccer fields, and at 8am Mikey's team will be playing in the first game of the championship tournament for the fall league of Foot Action Soccer.
Why we were so blessed as to get into the 8am game, I have no idea. Needless to say we're going to dress warm and bring blankets. Hannah is going over to Meme's house, so she won't be out in it. The tournament is double-elimination, so we may be out there for much of the day... we play until we lose twice (if we lose at all!) The coach wants us to just hang out at the soccer fields pretty much for the day, because after the first game we don't really know when we'll be called to play our next game! It's not supposed to top 50 degrees all day long.
Pray for us. Pray hard. :)
Why we were so blessed as to get into the 8am game, I have no idea. Needless to say we're going to dress warm and bring blankets. Hannah is going over to Meme's house, so she won't be out in it. The tournament is double-elimination, so we may be out there for much of the day... we play until we lose twice (if we lose at all!) The coach wants us to just hang out at the soccer fields pretty much for the day, because after the first game we don't really know when we'll be called to play our next game! It's not supposed to top 50 degrees all day long.
Pray for us. Pray hard. :)
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